jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> writes:
> i have aquired an old compaq prosignia (it ran openbsd in a previous
> life, quite successfully i was told). it has an eisa scsi host adapter
> (adaptec 2940 uw) to which is attached a 2 Gb hard drive and a sony
> cdrom drive. the machine has 32 mb dram. here my problems start.
> 
> netbsd (v1.4.2) (and freebsd v4.6-R) find the host adapter on boot and

Step 1: try using NetBSD 1.6 (or even better 1.6.1) instead. 1.4.2 is
old enough it is even past its official End of Life.

Then, send us the probe messages if it still fails.

Perry